The right kind of principal
into trouble.”
Students at Douglass, like other
city schools, are required to carry
hall passes when they must be in the
halls. At lunchtime, students must
remain in the cafeteria until their 30
minute lunch period ends.
Students who violate rules are
counseled and punished. Students
with drugs and those who get in ­
volved in tights can expect to be
dealt with swiftly.
In separate letters recently, two
form er students wrote Butts to
thank him tor his counsel, which
they said changed their disruptive
acts at school and is now leading
them to more productive lives.
Butts is a soft-spoken man, but
his reputation as a hard-nosed, no-
nonesense school administrator is
widespread. W hile some schools
find themselves beset by outsiders
flanging around their campuses
disrupting classes, Douglass is not.
Some high school principals do
not have student assemblies because
they cannot keep order. Douglass
has had as many as three during a
week.
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the city, 70 perent o f the students
enrolled at Douglass are getting free
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wealthy to the poorest. Students at
Douglass come from the C ollier
Heights, the Hightower-Baker roads
area, Dixie Hills and Bowen Homes
and Bankhead Courts.
At a recent honors programs,
honor students included students
from all those communities.
When the first class graduated
from Douglass in 1970, 15 percent
of the graduates were honor
graduates. Since then, 3,542
graduates have left and more than
20 percent were honor graduates.
I he percentages of students con­
tinuing their education after
graduation has grown from 38.9
percent to more than 65 percent.
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school has a sem ifinalist tor the
N ational
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Scholarship
Program. More than 350 students
took the P relim inary Scholastic
Aptitude Test this year.
Graduates of the school are now
holding down such jobs as doctors,
lawyers, nurses, flight attendants,
accountants, engineers, teachers,
mechanics, professional enter­
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/O' Peter Scott
some respects than other high­
school principals in the city. He has
Il may sound hard io believe, bui many ol the same top-notch staff
(here are schools that students and members he had when he opened the
th eir parents are clam oring to gel school in 1963. Samuel H ill, one of
in to . One o l them is A tla n ta ’ s his assistant principals, and Juanita
Frederick Douglass High School.
Daniels, the other, have been with
This year, out o l about 600 him since the school opened.
requests front parents in Area One
I wo ol his key departm ent
for student transfers, hall o f them
were lo r Douglass, according to chairmen, Juanita Long in math
Ihomas Rudolph, assistant area and Valeria Lockett in English, also
have been by his side since the
superintendent.
school opened.
" I know a lot o f people who live
As an elementary prin cip a l
with their grandparents in the area
w
orking
at both the Carey and
just to go to Douglass,” senior Gary
Williams elementary schools, Butts
Smith said.
“ It's the only school I ever got an early introduction to many o f
the students he later served as high
thought about going to .”
school principal.
f wo Alabama youths, Harronald
Butts, always neatly attired, can
Axlexander ol Tuskegee Institute
seldom be found sitting in his office.
and Raymond Young ol Anniston,
ca.ae to live with relatives for an He walks the halls of the Douglass
campus frequently, checking on the
education at Douglass.
education o f the 2,100 plus students
Douglass is an imposing modern
at the city’s largest high school. He
three-story, eggshell-colored, air-
is usually the only one in the halls
conditioned brick structure that sits
and the only sounds to be heard are
among a row of modest houses and
those coming from instructors and
churches at 225 Hightower Road
students
inside the classrooms.
NW, just oft Interstate 20 west.
Il is the discipline and academic
The school is the first so-called
atmosphere at Douglass that many
comprehensive high school in
refer to when they speak o f Lester
Atlanta, and it has all the courses
Butts.
parents could want to r their
“ M i. Butts is the kind o l ad­
youngsters. There are foreign
m inistrator who w ill ask you for
language studies, vocational studies,
your maximum effort, and he has
advanced college studies in English
established a climate at the school so
and mathematics, computer studies
that you can give it without being
and remedial programs in reading
bothered with discipline problems,”
and math.
said Moses Scott, an industrial arts
But the main a ttra c tio n o f
teacher.
Douglass seems not to be its
"Y ou get one or two complaints
academic offerings but its academic
from time to time, but by and large,
climate and the man who makes that
I haven’ t received any,” said Jesse
possible. Principal Tester W. Butts.
M oore, executive director o f the
Area One Superintendent Moses
Atlanta Association o f Educators.
Norman agrees.
Butts is not the darling o f the en­
‘ ‘ H e’ s an
organized
ad­
tire faculty at Douglass or the
m in is tra to r. He has surrounded
Atlanta school district, but those
himself with a competent staff and
who criticize him somehow end up
he keeps the instructional program
saying, "b u t, he is fa ir.”
as his main focus, and all other
One Butts’ detractors said that
things that happen are im portant
‘ ‘ the way to measure what he is
only in relationship to the leadership
doing is to see how well students
he gives,” Norman said.
from low-income areas are doing at
“ He is consistent. He believes in
his school compared to those from
following rules and regulations, but
middle-income homes.”
he is not bashful about challenging
But senior counselor Bettye S.
any ol them, and he does so in the
Smith says there’ s little difference in
proper forum .”
performance of the two groups.
In the early 70’ s, Butts found
“ The one thing he does is operate
him self challenging N orm an’ s
predecessor, Cecil T h o rn to n . A the school as a good father would
group o f white teachers did not run a fa m ily. He cares about
students being totally educated and
want to attend nig h t-tim e PTA
prepared for today’s w orld,” said
meetings in the m ostly Black
Douglass High area. Butts said they registar Lucille McIver.
“ Students are continuously going
would come. His area superinten­
dent was asking him to waive his to him for advice. By the time most
policy. Butts did not budge and o f them are seniors, he will know
threatened to resign if he were not them all,” Mrs. Ivers said.
Part o f that concern involves
supported. He was.
In another incident, Butts refused establishing good discipline, and it
to allow a teacher he dismissed to is in place at Douglass.
When Butts shows an extra in­
return to the campus. The teacher
was sent back to the school by area terest in the welfare of his students,
it is because he received the same
officials and Butts abruptly left for
kind o f support from a principal.
a briel trip to Florida. His departure
Butts
is
viewed
as
strict
produced such a cry from parents
disciplinarian.
that the teacher was transferred and
He looks upon his actions as
Butts returned to his job.
Butts, a slightly built man stand­ examples o f caring.
‘ ‘ I d on’ t th in k I am a strict
ing just about 5-feet-6, looks like he
disciplinarian.
I try to present alter­
ought to be in some corporate board
natives to students.”
room poring over stocks and bonds,
He said the concern at his school
but for 12 years, he has served as
for
students to be in class and not
Douglass' only principal.
roam ing the halls is simple:
Butts has been more fortunate in
"Students who cut class often get
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